The quality of being in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality.
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In the red vinyl booths parents with their kids cooed at the kitchness of the place.
"There is kitschness to it. But I love doing things that sound ridiculously kitsch, then surprising the audience with something deeper,” Johnston said.
The patterns and images he adapts are seductive in their familiarity and kitschness, but also in how they have become suddenly, shimmeringly strange.
Kawaii kitschness and high fashion doesn't necessarily go hand in hand.
It had a raw kind of drama and kitchness that was missing from a lot of British stuff at the time.
Instead of showing examples of British design, I decided to use imagery that summed up 'Britishness' and conveyed an element of nostalgia and kitschness.
I just adore the complete 'kitschness' of these pies, with a caramel glaze and piled high with popcorn.
A warm, inviting womb of a restaurant, it's a place that improbably manages to rise above the staggering kitschness of waiters exchanging 'buon appetito' with diners who don't speak a word of the language either.
Love it or loathe it, there's no escaping the candy-coated kitschness of St. Valentine's Day.